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Fortunately, the person that called me wasn't tech savvy

I'm glad I'm good at lying and that my poker face is good.

The successful outcome was a combination of the vulnerability In the human firewall, and your SEing skills. In this case, one could not work without the other- both were required to get the result.

I'm going to encrypt my SSD now.

What tool/software are you using to encrypt?

Did google research and VeraCrypt looks to be useful.

I've been using It for quite a few years.

I have two forms of encryption on all drives. The first Is encrypted with BitLocker, and In that drive I've created an encrypted volume via VeraCrypt using the AES-Twofish-Serpent cipher. Essentially, two forms of authentication Is required to access my data.